Revising History: What Happens In Texas Won’t Stay In Texas

Commentary
Inside the First Amendment

By Charles C. Haynes
First Amendment Center senior scholar

Battle lines are being drawn in Texas for a protracted fight over what gets taught in the state’s social studies classrooms. And since Texas has an outsized influence on what goes into textbooks nationwide, the winners could end up writing history for us all.

The opening skirmish is over reviews just in from six outside analysts appointed by the State Board…